Sony to release Vaio P 'mark 2' in October

Sony's latest ultra-portable finds its niche

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While Sony's Vaio P series – the sexy ultra-portable 'notbook' that launched earlier this year – came under fire from critics for its painfully-slow boot-up and its frighteningly 'premium' price-tag, the Japanese computing giant has revealed that it still has plans to release a Vaio P 'mark 2' this coming autumn.

A Sony rep informed TechRadar at a recent launch event for its new Vaio NW laptop and Vaio W netbook that, while overall sales of the ultraportable P Series hadn't gone through the roof, they were still selling a significant amount to certain niche markets.

Significant enough, so it would seem, for Sony to be planning to release a new range of Vaio P ultraportable computers this coming October or November.

Faster boot-up time

Other than the fact that we will see the new Vaio Ps later in 2009 and that they will feature a much-improved boot-up time (as the last ones came under fire for both pricing and for the up to 90-second boot-up wait) details are currently scarce.It seems that the business sector has become quite fond of Sony's solid and almost pocket-sized computer.

Pricing-gripes aside, TechRadar was a fan of the Vaio P and we are glad to hear that Sony sells a good enough amount of the dinky computers in places such as airports and in its flagship stores in areas such as London's Tottenham Court Road.